I was kind of wondering about Donald being the wizard too. Before the first Kingdom Hearts, Disney did a little skit to celebrate the opening of Toontown in Disneyworld. In said skit, apparently Donald got his grubby mitts on Sorcerer Yen Sid's hat and caused all sorts of trouble. (Kinda like Mickey did in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".)

I'm saddened that you would make jokes about the architect of the castle putting towers at wrong angles, Turrets syndrome is a really terrible disease for him to have to live with you are just being heartless!

I feel like we're missing important set-up: why are they looking for Mickey in the first place? Why is this castle that they clearly knew nothing about the first place they looked (gut feelings aside)? Shouldn't they start at the castle in the Magic Kingdom and ask Minnie?

Weirdwolf:I'm saddened that you would make jokes about the architect of the castle putting towers at wrong angles, Turrets syndrome is a really terrible disease for him to have to live with you are just being heartless!

I was looking to make a balcony-related pun, but I couldn't find one, so I'll just say well done.

That castle is like one of the apartments Fry and Bender were checking out while house-hunting, the M.C. Escher one. "I don't want to pay for a dimension we're not going to use."Never mind the kitchen, I can only imagine how to go to the bathroom in that place!

Darth_Payn:That castle is like one of the apartments Fry and Bender were checking out while house-hunting, the M.C. Escher one. "I don't want to pay for a dimension we're not going to use."Never mind the kitchen, I can only imagine how to go to the bathroom in that place!

Don't worry the bathrooms come equipped with tentacles and tubes to help.

Actually Graham, it's funny you should mention Chrono Trigger because when I first heard about a team up between Disney and Square-Enix back before Kingdom Hearts came and all we knew about it was that Disney and Square were teaming up, I was hopeful that more of Square's properties would be involved inc. Chrono Trigger, and was disappointed when Kingdom Hearts came out and only Final Fantasy was used.

Thunderous Cacophony:I feel like we're missing important set-up: why are they looking for Mickey in the first place? Why is this castle that they clearly knew nothing about the first place they looked (gut feelings aside)? Shouldn't they start at the castle in the Magic Kingdom and ask Minnie?

Remember that this is a sequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game, so all those answers were at the end of that game.

If you want to know though (at the risk of sounding like a diehard fan):

That's a very simplified explanation. I can't really explain the 'you've forgotten how to cast spells, but you still remember that you used to cast spells' thing very well other than that it was a useful gameplay excuse to have you start from the beginning and relearn all your abilities.

Thunderous Cacophony:I feel like we're missing important set-up: why are they looking for Mickey in the first place? Why is this castle that they clearly knew nothing about the first place they looked (gut feelings aside)? Shouldn't they start at the castle in the Magic Kingdom and ask Minnie?

Remember that this is a sequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game, so all those answers were at the end of that game.

If you want to know though (at the risk of sounding like a diehard fan):

That's a very simplified explanation. I can't really explain the 'you've forgotten how to cast spells, but you still remember that you used to cast spells' thing very well other than that it was a useful gameplay excuse to have you start from the beginning and relearn all your abilities.

Thanks for that. I can see how that sort of messing with people's minds would lead them to make questionable decisions.

Thunderous Cacophony:I feel like we're missing important set-up: why are they looking for Mickey in the first place? Why is this castle that they clearly knew nothing about the first place they looked (gut feelings aside)? Shouldn't they start at the castle in the Magic Kingdom and ask Minnie?

Remember that this is a sequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game, so all those answers were at the end of that game.

If you want to know though (at the risk of sounding like a diehard fan):

That's a very simplified explanation. I can't really explain the 'you've forgotten how to cast spells, but you still remember that you used to cast spells' thing very well other than that it was a useful gameplay excuse to have you start from the beginning and relearn all your abilities.

Thanks for that. I can see how that sort of messing with people's minds would lead them to make questionable decisions.

To be fair. I won't blame you if you can't tell where the KH games fit into the story chronologically. I won't bother you with it either. It's too convoluted at this point.

To be fair. I won't blame you if you can't tell where the KH games fit into the story chronologically. I won't bother you with it either. It's too convoluted at this point.

It's not that complex; not compared to a lot of series. The first 3 games KH, Chain of Memories, KH2 (and coded, if you want to count that one) were all in order, then they released a side story (365 Days Over Two; yes the name is a bit nonsense), a prequel (Birth By Sleep), then picked back up on the main chronology with Dream Drop Distance and presumably KH3 will be the next one, also in chronology.

A side story and a prequel is hardly an exceptionally convoluted chronology.

And here we come to the point in the series where the story begins to turn confusing and nonsensical. Don't get me wrong, I love these games to death... it's just that all the twists and turns the story takes give me a headache trying to understand.

(Also here's a thought: do the Organization members wear anything underneath those zippered coats of theirs? ...This s the kind of thing I think about...)